Is Washingtons Apron Tied to Britains Flag?
The American Revolution prompted the sharp denial of anything British. The 1773 dumping of tea into Boston harbor marked a symbolic casting-out of British ascendancy. Americans would even use a different metrical system than the British, a separate scale of weights and measurements. At the time of the Revolution the American lodges broke away from their English and Scottish antecedents and also refused the official English faith of Anglican Christianity. To scorn the Union Jack or national ensign of Britain, the founding fathers of America would not put the Cross of St. Andrew – or any cross, for that matter – on their new American flag. Stripes and a five-pointed star of Solomon were used instead. The flag initially flown by George Washington at the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 was the Grand Union Flag. It was the most commonly flown flag in America before the Flag Resolution of 1777, which replaced the cross with stars “representing a new Constellation.” The rel
